A place to put the things we are working on as well as the things we like.
Also, check out
Capture-Release.org
Feedback: ljyoe@hotmail.com
Also, check out
Capture-Release.org
Feedback: ljyoe@hotmail.com
Albert Einstein
Design is for sharing.
“ One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts. ”
Karl Gerstner
(and also Markus Kutter)
1959
Gerstner was one of Switzerland’s preeminent graphic designers.
+ Grids
+ Typography
+ Graphic Design
+ Visual Language
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Occupy Design: Visual Tools for the 99 Percent
Last weekend, San Francisco, New York, and Washington, D.C. hosted spontaneous “Hackathons” to brainstorm how to use various platforms to help Occupy Wall Street. One of the ideas hatched was Occupy Design, a new website that gives a “visual language” to protesters across the country. Jake Levitas, a designer from San Francisco who’s heading up the project, says it’s a chance to fight back at media who characterize the movement as directionless.
“These are people who have valid concerns grounded in reality and grounded in data that can be communicated visually,” Levitas says. “If we get these signs on CNN instead of the ones that say ‘Screw capitalism’ on a piece of cardboard,” viewers don’t see a generic grievance but “exactly how people are being screwed and by how much. It’s a lot harder to argue with statistics than it is with talking points.”
A Beautiful Symphony of Brotherhood: A Musical Journey in the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Saturday, January 16 at 10PM on WQXR 105.9, Sunday, January 17 at 7AM on AM820 and Monday, January 18 at 3PM on 93.9FM
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:
A Beautiful Symphony of Brotherhood
New York, NY –
ABOUT THE SHOW
Martin Luther King, Jr. grew up listening to and singing church songs, and saw gospel and folk music as natural tools to further the civil rights movement. In this hour-long special from WNYC, host Terrance McKnight interweaves musical examples with Dr. King’s own speeches and sermons to illustrate the powerful place that music held in his work—and examines how the musical community responded to and participated in Dr. King’s cause.
ABOUT THE HOST
Terrance McKnight is the Evening Host on WQXR. He came to WQXR from WNYC, which he joined in 2008. He brings to his position wide and varied musical experience that includes performance, teaching and radio broadcast. An accomplished pianist, McKnight was also a member of the Morehouse College faculty, where he taught music appreciation and applied piano.
Shervin’s World!
This is one of my favorite new fashion blog discoveries…such style showcased here!!
No other “comic book” has been as honored in literary and cultural circles as much (and deservedly) as Art Spiegelman’s Maus (I + II). It was the first comix memoir to be covered in The New York Times Book Review (“Cats, Mice and History: The Avant-Garde of the Comic Strip” by Ken Tucker), the first to receive a Pulitzer Prize — and Maus is heralded as the father of graphic novels (if only to provide an easily comprehensive sales term/genre for this autobiographic, historic yet anthropomorphic visual narrative).
Although Spiegleman raised the level of comics through magazines like Arcade and RAW and through books in the RAW Books and Graphics imprint, as well as lectures, essays and an opera, Maus his lasting impact on popular culture and contribution to comic lit. So it is appropriate that for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first edition Spieg has produced an autobiography (in interview format) about his autobiography.
MetaMaus is the culmination of many years of archive delving and soul searching. It is a history, memoir, confessional and philosophical unpacking of this seminal comic artwork and artifact.
In addition to an informative, at times emotional, story, the book includes a “bonus” DVD with a wealth of Maus-ania and Holocaust documents. There is a curiously raw humor to everything Spiegelman produces, and this MetaMaus package is no exception. While created as a companion to Maus, the book stands on its own as a study and celebration of comics today.
(Listen to Spiegelman on NPR’s archive here.)
Read more: Daily Heller, Maus Trap — Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers
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Roman Opałka
“In 1965, in his studio in Warsaw, Roman Opałka began painting a process of counting – from one to infinity. Starting in the top left-hand corner of the canvas and finishing in the bottom right-hand corner, the tiny numbers were painted in horizontal rows. Each new canvas, which the artist called a ‘detail’, took up counting where the last left off. Each ‘detail’ is the same size (196 x 135 cm), the dimension of his studio door in Warsaw. All details have the same title, “1965 / 1 – ∞”; the concept had no end, and the artist pledged his life to its execution: ‘All my work is a single thing, the description from number one to infinity. A single thing, a single life.’”
